Yoann Bourgeois’ ‘He Who Falls’ will open the festival on July 17. [Geraldine Aresteanu]
The 32nd edition of the Kalamata International Dance Festival opens July 17 in the seaside capital of Messinia in the southwestern Peloponnese, with a program dedicated to the “magic” of dance and its power to create new paths during a period of global instability and uncertainty.
The 10-day festival, held under the artistic direction of Tzeni Argyriou for a second consecutive year, will feature 24 artists from Greece and abroad in what organizers described as a “multivocal landscape of creativity.”
International participants are coming from countries including France, Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Germany and Brazil, with five artists presenting work in Greece for the first time.
The festival will open with “He Who Falls” (Celui qui tombe) by acclaimed French choreographer Yoann Bourgeois. Other artists include Lisbon-based Cape Verdean choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Finnish illusionist and visual artist Kalle Nio, alongside Brazilian choreographer Fernando Melo, Dutch-Swedish choreographer Jefta van Dinther and rising French choreographer Leila Ka, who most famously worked with Beyonce and the Casar Awards ceremony.
